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Claranet, a European managed services providers, managed hosting acquires Portuguese and Echiron application provider, as part of its continued expansion in Europe. The acquisition of Echiron, which has annual revenues of around € 5 million per year, managed hosting cements the position of Claranet Portugal.

Founded in 00 and based in Lisbon, Echiron is recognized for its expertise in cloud database and Microsoft and Oracle application management services. With offerings that complement and expand the existing service portfolio Claranet Echiron would be a natural partner for Claranet. Echiron has 0 clients in all industry sectors, including BMW Portugal, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (one of the largest private foundations in Europe) and SPMS (central administrative body of the Portuguese health system).

Claranet has grown steadily since it was founded in 1996. Echiron is the latest in a wave of acquisitions made by the company during the past 18 months through Europe - with Star UK (November 2012) and Typhon in France (December 2012) - as the company undergoes a period of rapid growth.

following this managed hosting acquisition, Claranet Group will have annual revenues of over € 155 million, 750 employees, over 4,500 customers and operations in six European countries, France, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud provider OnApp, has partnered with European roommate provider, Interxion, CloudPOD deliver a package for rapid testing and launching new cloud services of IaaS hosting. The partnership allows CloudPOD managed hosting providers to quickly deploy cloud services hosting one of 36 Interxion data centers in 11 European countries OnApp-powered.

CloudPOD of OnApp is a new range of all-in-one packages of clouds, combining platform OnApp cloud management with best-of-breed software, hardware , hosting and connectivity OnApp partners.

on OnApp CloudPOD solution is available in partnership with Interxion , Dell (hardware) and Custom Connect (connectivity ) and provides managed hosting suppliers a turnkey way to deploy cloud hosting services ready to run in data centers Interxion across Europe, reducing time to market for deploying new cloud hosting services.

Try free CloudPOD

managed hosting providers are enabled to try CloudPOD free before buying, to using the Lab test in CloudPOD Interxion 'of the city of London data center campus. Lab test allows familiarize providers with the environment and test different scenarios and integrations to get realistic results. Once the test phase demonstrates the feasibility of CloudPOD, managed hosting providers can instantly deploy their new service via Interxion Cloud Hubs , a hosting community, infrastructure providers the platforms to hyper-scale systems integrators, software providers and networks.

OnApp launched in July 2010 and has over 0 employees across the EU, US and Asia-Pacific. more than 800 service providers in 87 countries run on OnApp . The company offers a comprehensive platform for IaaS managed hosting providers, telecommunications and MSP operators with a fully automated control panel for cloud hosting services, dedicated servers, CDN, storage and more.

OnRamp, a hosting provider in the United States with data center facilities in Texas and North Carolina announced the launch of its online partner portal. The online tool will facilitate the company's ability to register as an official OnRamp reference and / or reseller partner and enjoy the benefits of the partner program OnRamp.

The potential partners, such as IT consultants, system integrators, hosting providers managed, value-added resellers (VARs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) have the possibility of submitting an online application on the partner portal OnRamp. Once accepted, the official partners are able to connect to the partner portal OnRamp member only.

Tool Library

The new portal is an online resource designed to provide partners with the information and resources needed to manage partner account , register opportunities and access a library of tools to facilitate sales and capitalize on the rapidly growing data center market by rewarding partners to bring new customers to OnRamp.

"OnRamp Partner Program is designed to reward our partners with aggressive incentives and generous volume discounts on our enterprise data center services," said OnRamp Partner Program Manager Ryan Scott . "Our program allows companies in all sectors of the industry to integrate the data center services in their current product offerings and services to build a more robust solution for their end users."

The OnRamp hosting solutions help enterprises meet stringent compliance requirements associated with HIPAA, PCI, SOX, FISMA and FERPA. As SSAE 16 SOC II Type II certified level 1 PCI and HIPAA audited company, the facilities of OnRamp data centers have the highest levels of security and redundancy.

CentriLogic, a provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation data centers with facilities in North America, in Europe and Asia, has acquired Adveniat Corporation, US Virgin Islands operator data center and hosting services provider. With the acquisition, CentriLogic can now directly support customers looking for managed hosting solutions and significant savings of the income tax.

Adveniat Corporation operates a Level 1, N + 2, data center in the US Virgin Islands (USVI). The company provides managed hosting services, virtualization, custom server architecture and disaster recovery for business customers in the telecommunications industry, education, government and finance. Financial details of the transaction are not disclosed.

With this acquisition, the CentriLogic customers can now take advantage of hosting solutions business delivered from the USVI data center while having the opportunity through the University Research and Technology Park Virgin Islands (RTPark) to qualify for the tax cuts on income generated by e-commerce and business of digital media in the USVI.

on US Virgin Islands is a destination increasingly attractive for e-commerce hosting companies because it offers up a 0 percent reduction tax passive income on eligible income harmonized with the regulations of the United States Treasury Department. The area is also a critical telecommunications hub linking South America, Central America and the Caribbean to North America and Europe.

ecommerce business

"In acquiring Adveniat, we established CentriLogic as premier independent gateway RTPark and hosting provider, and we are now the leading provider of managed hosting neutral support in the US Virgin islands, "said Robert Offley, president and CEO, CentriLogic . "With a center state-of-the-art data and fiber connectivity in the USVI, we can now directly support customers looking for reliable managed hosting solutions and significant tax savings on income. We are also motivated to help achieve the goal of attracting RTPark of competitive and innovative e-commerce companies in the region and help develop the economies of its USVI territories. "

Based in Toronto , Ontario, Canada and Rochester, New York, USA CentriLogic is a global provider of managed hosting, cloud computing, and advanced iT outsourcing solutions. Its acquisition of Adveniat Corporation is strategic for the global company expansion program.

thinspace technology Inc., based in Florida and a global provider of delivery of applications, virtualization and cloud client technology, announced on October 8, 2014, Delaware IBC equity Holdings raised the company approximately $ 400,000 in additional working capital and growth of its investors.

thinspace Technology operates in strong growth in B2B markets application delivery, virtualization technology and cloud client. The technology of the company would be easier, more flexible and more affordable for customers to perform and streamline computing operations safely from any server -. worldwide

"The capital injection will help us to strategically execute our aggressive growth plan with a favorable cash structure based on the completion of customer sales," said Chris Bautista, CEO of thinspace Technology . "This favorable structure reflects the confidence of financial markets in the performance and outlook thinspace."

US, UK, Canada and India

with over 5,000 enterprise customers worldwide, thinspace the list of public and private sector customers include NASA, PWC, Deutsche Bank, Toyota and, NHS, local councils, universities, schools and housing associations. thinspace is based in Port Orange, Florida, with international offices in the UK, Canada and India.

"thinspace an excellent opportunity to direct our funding to virtualization and the growing technology sector customer cloud," said Sam Oshana IBC Equity Holdings . "In addition, funding is consistent with our strategy to support strong management teams with tailored financing solutions, while generating risk adjusted returns for our differentiated business."

SingleHop, a request the provider on host private clouds and accommodation managed, announced its acquisition of Server Intelligence, a provider of Microsoft hosting solutions managed. This acquisition is the first acquisition for SingleHop, allowing it to deploy private clouds powered by both platforms hypervisor leader used by businesses today.

Founded in 03 and based in Orlando, Florida, Intelligence Server provides exclusively Microsoft-based private cloud and managed hosting solutions to customers around the world . Intelligence Server is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and every employee holds many technical certifications Microsoft.

"Intelligence Server provides an incredible amount of expertise in a wide range of Microsoft-based hosting technologies," said CEO Zak Boca of SingleHop . "As that top down Microsoft shop with a level of experience with Microsoft Hyper-V unprecedented Intelligence Server is the clear choice to expand the platform SingleHop private cloud in the Windows ecosystem. There was an undeniable innate synergy in our goal and mission that made the collaboration of a respective natural fit. "

VMware and Hyper-V

More than half of the company's hypervisor market has already standardized on the VMware platform, but Hyper- V Microsoft has gained ground, rising to over 30% of the hypervisor market from late 2014, according Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Report from IDC. Together, VMware platforms and Hyper-V are more 80% of the global business market hypervisor.

Server Intelligence is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and every employee holds many technical certifications Microsoft.

"at the end of the day, it is our customers who will benefit from being able to choose from the two leading hypervisors when deploying their private clouds hosted on our platform," said Andy Pace, COO of SingleHop . "For many companies, Microsoft Hyper-V is the best choice, and we are committed to extend SingleHop solutions to a wider set of customers."

Founded in 06, SingleHop has attracted more than $ 40 million in funding since 2012, with about $ 15 million received in 2014 the company serves more than 5,000 customers in over 124 countries with data centers across the United States and Europe.

to facilitate a better performance e-commerce worldwide, Telstra launched its global Financial trading Solutions, a commercial network low latency and managed hosting services solution -. including server infrastructure in financial centers, managed cloud and global unified communications

"The new service provides enterprises with scalable ICT, flexible and demand, helping the react to events market faster than ever, "said Matthew Lempriere, head of the financial services market segment Telstra global Enterprise services. " Supported by faster response times and scalability superior, global trading Telstra Financial Solutions facilitates greater efficiency, help customers reduce risk and compliance to address the concerns, while focusing on what is most important to them -. driving revenue and sustainable economic growth "

In addition to connectivity with low latency between the major financial capitals, including London, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney , comprehensive solutions for financial trading Telstra include:

• managed hosting for trading - an infrastructure managed hosting providing service server located in data centers high density or the trading world financial centers
• managed electronic trading platform -. technology infrastructure managed full electronic trading, providing broker and location connectivity, data ultra- low latency market, high-speed connectivity on the market and application hosting as a single bundled service
• Managed Cloud for financial applications -. an enterprise-class application services fully managed environment specifically designed. front, financial applications of middle and back office to mind
• Managed Unified Trader voice -. a world of unified communications and voice platform that combines VoIP trader for voice, voice recording and collaboration technologies

"For the basic infrastructure co-location of negotiation within the exchange or high-density data centers connected via low-latency networks, Telstra global Financial trading Solutions reduces the complexity and time it takes to complete each business, "added Lempriere ." with lower transaction times and faster access to market data, our customers are in a better position to capitalize on arbitrage opportunities and increase profitability at the same time. "

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) announced the appointment of Richard Warley as CEO for its operations (EMEA) Europe, Middle East and Africa. Warley's responsibilities in this role include the development of business strategy, the engine of growth in revenue and own customer relationships, and overall sales management in EMEA CenturyLink.

Warley joined CenturyLink of IPsoft , a provider of independent and cognitive solutions, where he held the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Warley also previously CEO of KVH , a Tokyo-based company specializing in data center, cloud, network and IT services. Before IPsoft and KVH, Warley has held senior positions at Savvis between 00 and 08, including the position of International Director.

"I believe CenturyLink has the most ambitious vision and the most complete set of all global provider of hybrid cloud capabilities," said Richard Warley.

"I believe CenturyLink has the most ambitious vision and most comprehensive capabilities of any global provider of hybrid cloud," said Richard Warley . "Our portfolio includes fiber optic network and data center global footprint, managed services capabilities and a public cloud that rivals any other on the market, all delivered through a single point of contact. The scope of services is a winning combination on the market for current and future CenturyLink customers. "

CenturyLink provides management of network and data systems, analyzing Big Data and IT consulting, and operates more than 55 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia .

"the addition of Richard to the international leadership team underscores the commitment of CenturyLink to serve the technology needs of multinationals," said James Parker, senior vice president , financial and international partner at CenturyLink . "It is perfectly placed to leverage our expertise in the network, cloud, colocation and managed services, and position ourselves as the partner of choice for businesses looking to thrive in the world of IT hybrid."

PlexHosted, a developer managed cloud hosting solutions for improved business collaboration, announced a new series of product offerings for Microsoft SharePoint that will allow Microsoft Office 365 customers to continue to use SharePoint Online public websites, a feature that was deleted by Microsoft earlier this year. As a Microsoft partner, PlexHosted is approved to host public Web sites based on SharePoint.

Public functionality of SharePoint website is a crucial tool for small organizations and medium looking to quickly establish a presence on the web using simple design tools. Current customers have given a minimum two-year period through March 9, 2015 Access would shutters, while new customers after March 9 do not have access to the functionality at all.

as a Microsoft partner, PlexHosted is qualified to develop solutions that enable SharePoint users with the features they rely on most. new web hosting service PlexHosted include plans for the Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, and Business Intelligence. new service plan features not available under former service plans.

"PlexHosted is pleased to be able to offer small and medium businesses continued use of their public SharePoint sites without interruption, as well as new customers looking to get a web presence up, "said Michael Starostin, CTO, PlexHosted ." Our new web hosting plans are affordable, and because we offer full migration and monitoring, allow the customer to feel safe that their website is in good hands. "

Founded in 2010, PlexHosted, managed private cloud hosting headquartered in Jamestown, Rhode Island , provides messaging solutions for enterprises, collaboration, IM d enterprise and SaaS website hosting solutions.